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Advertisement Articles for 02/05/2013 "Pinterest for Dudes" Site Tapiture Raises Seed Round BlackBerry Z10 "Off to a Better Start Than Lumia 920" IBM Slashes Prices on Power Servers, Widens Distribution With Dell Buyout Poised to Be Announced Today, the Bromance Between Microsoft and Silver Lake Gets Serious Microsoft, Huawei Go After African Market With New Windows Phone Why Twitter Is Buying Bluefin -- And Why Bluefin Is Selling Jawbone "Acqhires" Data and Digital Design Firms Massive Health, Visere Here a Hack, There a Hack, Everywhere a Cyber Attack No Fast Lane for Apple's Patent Pursuit of Samsung Beginning This Week, Expect to See a Lot Fewer Spammy Actions on Facebook Seattle Museum Brings the Videogame Making Process to Life (Video) Facebook Will Come Clean(er) About Its Retargeted Ads Samsung Sets Up Shop on Sand Hill Road, Launches $1.1 Billion in Venture Funds HP Enters Chromebook Market With Pavilion 14 The Super Bowl Gave the Web the Night Off The TED Conference Is Moving to Canada Micro-Social Apps Team Up: Pair Acquires Cupple and Becomes Couple News Corp. Confirms Sale of IGN ATD Q&A: Zynga's President of Games Steve Chiang Of Course Nokia Is Building a Tablet Betable Hooks Up With Canada's Frima Studio to Provide Real-Money Gaming Support Top Exec Says Windows 8 Off to "Solid Start" Despite Challenges Super Bowl Eyeballs Up a Bit, Super Bowl Chatter Up a Lot Oracle Acquires Acme Packet for $1.7 Billion Read Kara Follow Kara Subscribe to Kara Read Walt Follow Walt Subscribe to Walt Read Katie Follow Katie Subscribe to Katie Read John Follow John Subscribe to John Read Peter Follow Peter Subscribe to Peter Read Liz Follow Liz Subscribe to Liz Read Ina Follow Ina Subscribe to Ina Read Tricia Follow Tricia Subscribe to Tricia Read Arik Follow Arik Subscribe to Arik Read Lauren Follow Lauren Subscribe to Lauren Read Bonnie Follow Bonnie Subscribe to Bonnie Read Mike Follow Mike Subscribe to Mike Follow us on: iPhone app E-Readers Facebook Twitter RSS "Pinterest for Dudes" Site Tapiture Raises Seed Round Peter Kafka Feb 05, 2013 06:00 am Tapiture, a "Pinterest for dudes" founded by the brothers behind dude-site The Chive, says it has raised a $825,000 seed round. The company says it will use the money to build an e-commerce revenue stream. read more » BlackBerry Z10 "Off to a Better Start Than Lumia 920" John Paczkowski Feb 05, 2013 05:30 am Cautious optimism, folks. Cautious optimism. read more » IBM Slashes Prices on Power Servers, Widens Distribution Arik Hesseldahl Feb 05, 2013 04:29 am A competitive shot against HP and Oracle. read more » With Dell Buyout Poised to Be Announced Today, the Bromance Between Microsoft and Silver Lake Gets Serious Kara Swisher Feb 05, 2013 01:24 am Not that there's anything wrong with that. read more » Microsoft, Huawei Go After African Market With New Windows Phone Ina Fried Feb 04, 2013 10:48 pm It's part of a new strategy by the software giant to create products specifically for African consumers. read more » Why Twitter Is Buying Bluefin -- And Why Bluefin Is Selling Peter Kafka Feb 04, 2013 04:15 pm Twitter gets research firepower to help sell to advertisers and programmers. Bluefin gets an exit in what turned out to be a tough market. read more » Jawbone "Acqhires" Data and Digital Design Firms Massive Health, Visere Lauren Goode Feb 04, 2013 03:10 pm Jawbone looks to boost the software behind the Up, as more health and fitness devices come to market. read more » Here a Hack, There a Hack, Everywhere a Cyber Attack Arik Hesseldahl Feb 04, 2013 02:48 pm Had enough yet? read more » No Fast Lane for Apple's Patent Pursuit of Samsung John Paczkowski Feb 04, 2013 02:28 pm The waiting is the hardest part. read more » Beginning This Week, Expect to See a Lot Fewer Spammy Actions on Facebook Mike Isaac Feb 04, 2013 01:59 pm Goodbye, Farmville crops notices. (And good riddance.) read more » Seattle Museum Brings the Videogame Making Process to Life (Video) Tricia Duryee Feb 04, 2013 01:35 pm Seattle-based Big Fish Games helped to build an installation that deconstructs the year-long process of making a mobile game. read more » Facebook Will Come Clean(er) About Its Retargeted Ads Peter Kafka Feb 04, 2013 01:18 pm Just like the rest of the Web, Facebook serves some of its ads using your surfing history to target you. And just like the rest of the Web, Facebook will now tell you about that -- if you look carefully. read more » Samsung Sets Up Shop on Sand Hill Road, Launches $1.1 Billion in Venture Funds Ina Fried Feb 04, 2013 12:57 pm The Korean electronics giant is putting down roots in Menlo Park. read more » HP Enters Chromebook Market With Pavilion 14 Bonnie Cha Feb 04, 2013 11:53 am HP joins the Chromebook fray. read more » The Super Bowl Gave the Web the Night Off Peter Kafka Feb 04, 2013 11:23 am Turns out a lot of you like to watch a single screen, after all. read more » The TED Conference Is Moving to Canada Liz Gannes Feb 04, 2013 11:20 am The Vancouver Convention Centre is apparently a more eco-friendly venue. read more » Micro-Social Apps Team Up: Pair Acquires Cupple and Becomes Couple Liz Gannes Feb 04, 2013 10:50 am Some consolidation happening in the mobile-apps-for-romantic-couples space -- an idea that sounds nice, but is proving to be hard to grow. Tenthbit, which has a major $4.2 million in seed funding, acquired its competitor Cupple -- which it cited as first to launch in the space -- and changed its app's name to Couple from Pair. Another competitor is Avocado. read more » News Corp. Confirms Sale of IGN Peter Kafka Feb 04, 2013 10:08 am News Corp. has sold off IGN, its games-and-dudes site, to J2 Global's Ziff Davis. The price was undisclosed, but, as AllThingsD reported last week, it would be a fraction of the $650 million News Corp. paid for the property in 2005. News Corp. also owns AllThingsD. read more » ATD Q&A: Zynga's President of Games Steve Chiang Tricia Duryee Feb 04, 2013 10:00 am Here are some highlights from a recent interview with Steve Chiang, Zynga's new president of games. read more » Of Course Nokia Is Building a Tablet John Paczkowski Feb 04, 2013 09:37 am "We haven't announced tablets at this point, but it is something we are clearly looking at very closely." read more » Betable Hooks Up With Canada's Frima Studio to Provide Real-Money Gaming Support Mike Isaac Feb 04, 2013 09:14 am Gaming monetization platform Betable announced Monday that it will begin working with Frima Studio, one of Canada's largest independent gaming studios, bringing real-money gaming to a number of the company's titles. Instead of Frima getting its own series of gambling licenses -- an arduous and somewhat time-consuming process -- Frima is able to utilize Betable's existing licenses, expediting the entire process and letting the studio push out real-money titles faster. Frima's new games will come from 3OAK, its new division devoted to real-money titles. read more » Top Exec Says Windows 8 Off to "Solid Start" Despite Challenges Ina Fried Feb 04, 2013 09:00 am But things would have been better had more touchscreen models been on sale for the holidays, Windows business head Tami Reller tells AllThingsD. read more » Super Bowl Eyeballs Up a Bit, Super Bowl Chatter Up a Lot Peter Kafka Feb 04, 2013 07:36 am Blabbing on Twitter and Facebook is up 2x. But it's hard to prove what that means for viewership. read more » Oracle Acquires Acme Packet for $1.7 Billion Arik Hesseldahl Feb 04, 2013 06:18 am Oracle's first deal of 2013. read more » Get the latest news & reviews on AllThingsD.com: News | Reviews | Mobile | Media | Social | Enterprise | Commerce | Conferences | Voices | Video | Jobs About Us | Contact Us | FAQ | Privacy Policy | Advertise | Send a Tip You are receiving this email because you are an All Things Digital Newsletter subscriber. Unsubscribe sojo.blo@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036 © 2013 Dow Jones & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile